Jessamyn West at the RPL Staff Conference

I’m pretty excited about our staff conference on Friday (although the last minute details and fire fighting gave me a bastard of a headache today so that I

Naheed Nenshi Wins Mayor’s Race in Calgary

Funny enough, it was a thread on the off-topic forum of a site dedicated to the Calgary Flames where I first heard about the current mayoralty race in

Music Monday – The Best iPhone Commercial Apple Never Made

This clip went viral over the weekend so you may have seen it by now. It’s by a band from New York called Atomic Tom who decided to

Ten Things Every Librarian Should Know

Sure, when you get your MLIS degree, you learn some skills that are supposedly important – how to catalogue, how to answer a reference question, that Meville Dewey

Saturday Snap – The Beauty of SILS

One of the great advantages of being in a province-wide system now is that there is a much greater chance that a patron can find a book they’re

Friday Fun Link – An Even Better UK Xmas #1 Campaign Than Last Year

Last year, folks online showed the growing power of social media by making a fifteen year old, anti-authority Rage Against the Machine song the UK #1 Christmas Number

Tales from A Hard Drive Crash

Last Saturday night, I turned on my laptop and heard a very weird click-click-click noise. “Oh, oh – that doesn’t sound good.” Everything appeared on my desktop as

Five Most Engrossing TV Moments of My Life

Watching the rescue of the trapped miners in Chile over the past 24 hours, I thought it might be interesting to try to rank the most engrossing TV

Notes from Rachel Van Riel Workshop at Regina Public Library

RPL hosted a workshop with well-known library consultant, Rachel Van Riel of OpeningTheBook.com today, the only Saskatchewan stop on a cross-Canada tour that will also take her to

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